All Aboard the Orient-Express

The famous train lives up to its romantic history

Words: Lee Tulloch, Photography: Tony Amos

Travelling on the Venice-Simplon Orient-Express is one the great romantic journeys but we were afraid the experience would not live up to its fame. Discard that thought. We took the train’s inaugural trip from Venice to Stockholm and found the three-day voyage a marvelous romp, even without the murder and intrigue.